Rail-fastener.



H. A. BERQUIST` RAIL FASTENER. APPLICATION FILED 111111.15, 1916.

1,201,012. Patented 001.1111916.

TTORA/EYS HENRY A. BERQIST, OF ST. CROIX FALLS, WISCONSIN.

RAL-FASTENER.

Leonora.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1.916.

Application filed March 15, 1916. Serial No. 84,314.

To all @l1/wm t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. BERQUIST, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Croix Falls, in the county of Polk and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail- Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for fastening the rails of railway tracks to the tics, as a substitute for the unreliable spikes, and

` is adapted for use with the .conventional ties or with the ties shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States issued to me on the 7th day of July, 1914, No. 1,102,857.

My invention is fully described in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which like characters refer to like parts in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention in operative position at one end of a tie, the rail being shown in section; Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line y2--2of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a detail.v f

Referring to the drawings, 5 represents a tie of conventional form, 6 the usual metal cap plate thereover, 7 one of the rails, and

8 and 9 the base flanges thereof.

The rail 7 is held in place by two fasteners 10 arranged upon opposite sides of the tie 5, each of said fasteners consisting of a plate recessed at 11 to form a hook member 12 and a vertical member 13 spaced apart a distance approximating the widthof the bottom of the rail, whereby the hook member l2 will overlie the base flange of the rail, the fasteners 10 being identical in structure but reversed, end for end, upon opposite sides of the tie.

The hook member 12, as illustrated, rests upon the base flange 8 upon the near side of the tie 5 whereas the hook member 12 of the fastener on the far side of thel tie rests upon the base flange 9, thereby holding both flanges to the tie, or to the plate 6 interposed between rail and tie, the vertical members 13 of the two fasteners preventing' lateralv movement of the rail.

Each fastener carries a projecting member 14 corrugated upon 1ts outer surface, as

shown at 15, and provided with a vertical s lot'16, and each fastener also carries a projecting member 17 downwardly and outwardly beveled on its outer surface, as shown at 18 and provided with a vertical slot 19, the sides of the slots 16 and 19 being parallel.

The fasteners 10 are held together by means of bolts 20 of identical form and having, each, a square shank 21, a head 22 set at an angle to the axis of the bolt, a body member 23 of cylindrical form, and awscrew threaded outer end 24, the angle of the heads 22 with respect to the axes of the bolts being the equivalent of the angularity of the beveled projections 17 with respect to the lower surfaces of said fasteners.

In installing my fasteners, the tic is bored for one of the bolts 20, as shown at 25, Fig. 3, and one of the bolts 20 is then passed through the slot .19 of the inclined member 17 of one of the fasteners, then through the bore 25 of the tie, and then through the slot 16 of the corrugated projection 14 of the other or complemental fastener, after which a corrugated washer 26 is placed upon the bolt end with the corrugations engaged with those of the projecting member 14 thereunder, and a, nut27 is then screwed upon the bolt end and tightened.

The position of the bore 25 is fixed so thaty the projecting members 14 and 17 on one side of the rail will extend beyond thevend of the tie, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, to clear the slots 16 and 19 from the end of the tie and, when the first bolt has been secured in place, the second bolt 20 is passed through the slot 19 of the fastener on the near side of the tie, through a distance tube 28, and

through the slot 16 of the fastener on the far side of the tie, after which a corrugated washer 26 is placed on the bolt with the corn rugations thereof engaged with those on the adjacent projecting member 14, and a nut 27 screwed on the end of this bolt, the fasteners now being assembled.

The vertical position of the bolt hole 25 is such as to occupy a position approximately midway of the lengths of the respective slots 16 and 19, .and the corrugated washer 26 on the far side of the tie is vertically kadjusted in desired relationship with the respective corrugated projecting member 14 before the nut 27 bearing thereon is Y tightened, and the beveled projecting inember 17 on the near side of the tie is driven down until the corresponding hook member 12 bears firmly on the base flange 8, after which the nut 27 is tightened.

The nut 27 on the bolt at the end of the tie is also loose until the vertical adjustment of the corrugated washer thereat is attained and the respective beveled projecting memberfl is driven down to engage the hook member 12 on the far side `of the tie with the base flange 9, after which this nut 27 is tightened, and the distance tube 28 is made of such a length as not to prevent the binding engagement of the fasteners with the tie but to prevent bending the projecting members 14 and 17 toward each other when the and, because of the corrugations 15 on the nut at the end of the tie is tightened. Because of the bevel on `themembers 17, these ends of the fasteners cannot work upwardly members 14 and on the washers 26, no vertij cal movement of these washers is possible with respect tothe said members 111, after the desired vertical adjustment has been attained.

My fasteners are quickly and easily in- Y stalled and entirelyjavoid the use of spikes which work` loose in the movement of trains on the rails, and through the decay of the woodv of which the conventie-nal tie is com-y posed. `Because of the fact that the fasteners at opposite sides of thetie are identical, no mistake can occur in the installation thereof and, because of the/square shank 21 of the bolts 20,110 rotationof the bolts can occur, the inclined heads 22likewise resisting any bolt rotation, although the function of the said heads is to prevent upward movement of the respective ends of the. fasteners.

My invention Vis very simple, though highly efficient, is very economical in construction and installation, and is well adapted Vfor the purpose for which it is designed, and, while I have shown certain preferred structural details, it will be yevidentv that changes 4may be made thereover provided such changes do not depart from the spirit of the invention and come within the scope of the following claims.

Having fully described invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by j Letters Patent, is

1. A fastener, for use with a railway rail and tie, comprising a plate at each side of said tie provided, each, with a hook memv ber resting on the base flange of the rail and with a vertical member resting against the opposite base flange on the outer edge thereof, means for clamping said plates in position, and means resisting movement from the adjusted position.

2. A fastener, for use with a railway railV and tie, comprising` a plate at each side of said tie provided, each, with a hook member resting on one base flange of the rail and with a vertical member resting against the edge of the opposite base flange of said rail, means for clamping said plates in position, and means for adjusting said plates with respect to said rail and tie.

3. A fastener, for use with a railway rail upon the beveled member of the respective plate, and a nut at its other end, and a corrugated washer interposed between the respective nuts and corrugated plate members.

4:. As an .article of manufacture, for use with a railway rail and tie, a plate having 'a recess in the upper side thereof of a length approximating the width of the base of a rail, va hook member at one side of said recess, a. vertical member at the other side of said recess, a slotted projecting member at one end the outer surface of which is corrugated, and a slotted projecting member at the opposite end the outer surface of which is downwardly and outwardly inclined.

HENRY A. BERQUIST. Witnesses:

J. C. HOGLUND, Fni'rrinor A. CARLBERG.

Copiesof this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

